A reflection on Season 1: Community Three months ago, I opened the season with an essay on what community means to me and for paid subscribers, five lessons I’ve learned along my community-building journey. I had ideas for stories and interviewees, and intentionally, I did not do a lot
A short letter to paid subscribers about my brain fog.
Coffee can be both & some more thoughts on private equity in coffee.
Unstructured thoughts, two days after Expo, for paid subscribers.
The stories of three industry veterans who were hired into companies backed by investment money and founded by non-coffee people. Their community ties were extracted, and then they were laid off.
🔎 In Focus
This is a continuation of the In Focus interview sent out last week. It features Suneal Pabari and Grant Gamble, co-founders of Leaderboard, the worldwide mystery coffee game. Paid subscribers receive bonus interview content when there’s too much to fit into the first part.
A detailed Q&A with the co-founders of Leaderboard, a worldwide mystery coffee game.
S1: Community
Bonus interview content with Kate Brune, a tanjennts mid-season update, and a mental health update.
Do you really need to build that community, or can you instead help one grow? I talk with the founders of Being Tea and Color of Coffee Collective.
S1: Community
Bonus interview content for paid subscribers, where we discuss building relationships and sales.
When is it sales, and when is it community? Can it be both?
S1: Community
Five key lessons I've learned over the last dozen years of helping build communities.